There are far superior keymaps and key layout to the conventional row staggered QWERTY. Due to technical limitations QWERTY got created and spread as a standard. But does it really make sense?
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([[buzing2003keyboards.pdf#page=4&selection=22,0,28,21|buzing2003keyboards, page 4]]) A problem with the printing mechanism was that the key slugs would easily get jammed when a key was pressed before the previous one had returned. Sholes solved this problem by experimenting with the most common English two-letter sequences and assigning the most frequent couples to opposite sides of the keyboard. This resulted in the QWERTY layout, which was optimal in avoiding key jamming.
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